• “Al Gore TV get off the air!”

    Al Gore TV goes live tomorrow (Monday):

    Much of the talk around Al Gore’s new Current TV network has been broadly philosophical, like the former vice president’s statement that “we want to be the television home page for the Internet generation.” With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks - on whether its programming can hold a viewer’s interest.

    Gore and his fellow investors envision Current as a sounding board for young people, a step beyond traditional notions of interactivity. They want viewers to contribute much of the network’s content now that quality video equipment is widely available.

    I’m guessing that there will be instructional video on watching paint dry and grass grow.

  • The state of the Yankees.

    It was 6-2 LA-Anaheim when I tuned in for the bottom of the 8th. The Yankees tied it in the bottom of the 8th, the Angels got a run in the top of the 10th, and the Yanks tied it in the bottom. Flash Gordon blanked the Angels in the top of the 11th, and Matsui led off the bottom with a triple. He scored what seemed like 20-minutes later on a Tony Womack single. 8-7 Yankees win, and so did Boston. They remain 2 ½ games behind the Sox. Baltimore has long since faded, being passed by the hardly-surging Toronto Blue Jays.

  • Tonight’s music.

    Brahms: Symphony no 3 in F. (And I could have used a D symphony tonight. I much prefer Beethoven’s Second to Brahms’s, which I hear puts me in the minority.)